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No. 626,685. Patented lune 13,1899, R. s. c. FULLER.

WRITING PAD.

(Application filed. Jan. 26, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT s. o. FULLER, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

WRITING-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 626,68 5, dated June13, 1899.

- Application filed January 26, 1899. $erial No. 703,403. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT S. O. FULLER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of New York, (Brooklyn,) county of Kings, and State ofNew York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Writing-Pads, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a writin g or memorandum pad adapted to besuspended from a finger and to be held within the palm of a hand. Thepad is composed, preferably, of a number of leaves or tablets turning ona common stud and combined with a wire loop that ,embraces the fingerand which will automatically adjust itself to difierent diameters.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front perspective view of myimproved pad, showing it secured to the hand. Fig. 2 is a rearperspective View of the pad; and Fig. 3, a cross-section on line 3 3,Fig. 2.

The letters a a represent a number of superposed leaves or tablets madeof cardboard, ivory, celluloid, silicate, slate, or similar ma terialand preferably of circular shape. The several leaves a are pierced neartheir periphery for the reception of a common connecting pivot or eyelet1), upon which the leavesare rotatable, so that their writing-surfacesmay be successively exposed.

At the back the pivot or eyelet b is extended and to this projecting endthere is secured a continuous spring wire, which is doubly looped, as atc c. The loop 0 lies fiat against the rearmost tablet a, while the loop0' extends at aboutright angles therefrom, the bend in the wire beingformed at. about the crossing-point of its shanks.

In use the loop 0 is slipped over the finger, so that the pad is heldsecurely against the palm of the hand. The loop 0' will automaticallyadjust itself to the diameter of the finger, its increase or decreasebeing taken up by a corresponding decrease or increase in the diameterof loop 0. This latter loop 0 thus forms the complement of loop 0' andserves at the same time to form a rigid backing for the pad.

It is evident that the pad may be composed of a single writing-tabletinstead of a number of such tablets, as illustrated in the drawings.

What I claim is.

1. A writing-pad composed of a tablet and of a doubly-looped wire bentat an angle, one of the loops forming a backing for the tablet and theother loop forming an attaching medium, substantially as specified.

2. A writing-pad composed of a number of tablets, a rearwardly-extendingconnectingpivot, and a doubly-looped spring-wire connected to saidpivot, the loops extending at an angle to one another, substantially asspecified.

7 ROBERT S. O; FULLER. Witnesses:

WILLIAM SoHULz, F. v. BRIESEN.

